Mike Fontaine: the alchemy of a makeup artist
Mike Fontaine is an American special effects makeup artist who began studying the craft as a protégé of the celebrated makeup innovator Dick Smith during…
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Carrie Mae Weems’s ‘The Cool Blue Wind’ joins the Obama Presidential Center’s public art programme
At the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side, opening June 2026, Carrie Mae Weems will present The Cool Blue Wind, a major public art…
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The pioneer of organic textile sculptures, Magdalena Abakanowicz, is taking over Helsinki Art Museum
At Helsinki Art Museum, Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crossing Boundaries brings the visionary Polish artist’s monumental fibre works to Finland for the first time, on view from …
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‘The Absurd and the Dreamlike’: in conversation with Arne Quinze and Joana Vasconcelos
With the turn-of-the 20th century artists across Europe were gathering together in bars and brothels to tear into ideas about pictorial space and the politics…
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hube guide: what to do in New York During Frieze
Very soon, Frieze Art Fair will once again draw New York into the electric pulse of art week — that fleeting stretch when the city…
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A living pulse above the water: Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ at the Venice Biennale
As part of the 61st La Biennale di Venezia, Studio DRIFT presented Shy Society, a monumental kinetic light installation suspended above Venice’s Grand Canal from…
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Currents of the 61st Biennale: Inside Venice’s Flow of Art and Power
Artists and curators were scattered across the city, some gathered over Aperol spritzes, others in their rented Venetian apartments, when their phones lit up with…
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Es Devlin’s installation bridges time and form through Everythingism at V&A East
The Everythingists, the latest installation by Es Devlin, is now on view at V&A East Storehouse from May 4th to October 18th, 2026. Conceived within…
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Cinematic architecture of modern mythology, captured in ‘Doug Aitken: Lightscape’
Doug Aitken’s Lightscape, premiering at The Shed from June 25th to September 13th, enters as a vast filmic environment where image, sound, and architecture converge…
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Venice’s Canal Grande as a living surface: JR’s ‘Il Gesto’ and a contemporary reading of ‘The Wedding at Cana’
Installed across the façade of Palazzo Ca’ da Mosto and extending into The Venice Venice Hotel, JR’s Il Gesto turns the Venice Canal Grande into…
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